Cut off by a scooter?

I am back. I know that I have been rather sporadic with my posts lately. Too bad. Besides, I have an email from over a month ago from a friend that I have yet to respond. It is Facebook-y so that may explain my reticence. That, and I do like to use the word "reticence".

I do have to say that we had a beautiful weekend around these parts. Well, it was beautiful if you ignore the deluge of cold, hard rain through the Saturday overnight and into early Sunday afternoon. After that it was Saul Goode. Friday and Saturday were just fantastic.

I was coming home on Friday, around six, coming down a residential street with a sidewalk, I might add, when I was cut off by a woman on a scooter. Not a vespa-type scooter, mind you, one of those for people with trouble walking (or too fat to have their joints carry around their obese frame as they try to hit the "all you can eat" buffet). She was covered in a blanket with just her head exposed to air, like she was just a head. The sidewalk is clear and she is on the road with a parked car in front of her. I am about to pass the parked car, parked illegally too, when she darts, if you can call that "super-sonic" speed a "dart", into my lane and in front of my car.

It is not enough that able bodied pedestrians seem to feel that they can "count" on me protecting them from harm as they jaywalk or dart out from in between parked cars, now those less able bodied are thinking that way???!!!!! This woman obviously does not know me. I feel no need to be her saviour or anything approximating that. If you cannot obey the rules of the road, or at least those necessary for self-preservation, fuck you, I have no sympathy as to what befalls you. It is pure Darwinian evolution.

If you can, or better if the stupid do their stupidity before they breed, then the stupid genes do not get passed on, or at least one set of them. We would all be better off with that. Of course, that is not how our nanny-state society works. We make laws to protect the stupid, so that they my create more stupid people, who go on to elect even more stupid, but clever (it really is not a contradiction) politicians. They are smart enough to have a sense of self-interest and to put it above all else, yet cloak it in terms of "public interest". The funny part, is that they do not want any debate on those issues and do not countenance any dissension. Does this sound like our windbag, dumb-ass mayor, David Miller? He is just a great example of this and the citizens of Toronto who voted for him (never have, never will) are great examples of the vapid leading the stupid.

I am digressing. The point of all this is to say....lady, if you are on your scooter and you feel the need to avoid the sidewalk and dart into on coming traffic without looking or even fucking signalling, then do not be upset if I send you flying. It would be inevitable accident and I would be doing the Lord's work--reuniting him with you.

Ciao!